Great showcase for Benicio del Toro, of course, a wonderful actor who gives it his all. But Che, the T shirt hero of three generations, is a myth that so many today THINK Che stood for.
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09/26/09
Che (2008)
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Reviews Counted:93
Fresh:58
Rotten:35
Average Rating:6.2/10
Consensus: Though lengthy and at times plodding, Soderbergh's vision and Benicio Del Toro's understated performance ensure that Che always fascinates.
Runtime: 4 hrs 18 mins
Genre: Dramas
US Box Office: $1,543,029
Synopsis: November 26, 1956; led by Fidel Castro (Demian Bichir), a band of 80 rebels sails to Cuba. Among these young rebels is Argentine physician, Marxist, soldier, Ernesto "Che" Guevara (Benicio Del... [More]
Starring: Benicio Del Toro, Benjamin Bratt, Franka Potente, Lou Diamond Phillips
Director: Steven Soderbergh
Reviews for Che
Top CriticIt is interesting. It is ambitious. It is well-assembled, and it is beautifully shot. And it is long -- so long, in fact, that Soderbergh broke his project into two parts.
09/04/09
Del Toro's performance is fine and there are many strong moments (including some wonderful black and white footage of Che in New York) but the parts are better than the whole.
03/17/09
Guevara is too fascinating an individual to be confined to a story that can fit on a bumper sticker.
03/16/09
Leaving aside politics, it's quite an achievement in art.
03/13/09
There is precious little in these movies to fill out our understanding of what it was that made Che a rebel, a leader of men, and the repository of the romantic dreams of several generations of armchair revolutionaries
03/06/09
The title and length suggest a biographical epic, but it's neither biographical nor epic. It's as if the director, Steven Soderbergh, wanted to take tissue samples of Ernesto 'Che' Guevara's political life.
03/06/09
Close, but no (Cuban) cigar.
03/03/09
Hugely watchable, practically mesmerizing.
02/27/09
"Che" is a taut thriller, a fascinating character study, a pitiless black comedy, and one of the most singularly interesting biopics ever made.
02/27/09
It's a fight with your bladder and attention span worth waging.
02/25/09
A riveting invocation of history.
02/20/09
A potentially great title-role performance by Benicio Del Toro, which won him the best actor award at Cannes, is buried beneath Soderbergh's stylistic tics and a defiant lack of dramatic tension.
02/20/09
One thing’s for certain: whether it’s a meditation on guerrilla warfare, on Che or on moviemaking itself, you’ve seen nothing like it and are unlikely to ever again.
02/20/09
Che offers a long look at a man who gave up comfort and power in Cuba for a lot of suffering in the wilds of Bolivia.
01/31/09
[E]xists as a matter of Guevara's perspective. Soderbergh and Del Toro -- this truly is a tour de force performance -- puts us so totally into his head that it's impossible not to sympathize with him.
01/29/09
The director has approached his subject as the complicated human being he was in life, not the overblown symbol he has become since his death.
01/26/09
I found this four-hours-plus movie sheer torture to watch during most of its long running time. 'Che' seems more like a guerilla handbook than a film.
01/25/09
As absorbing as it is frustrating.
01/23/09
Che, the story of a failed revolutionary, also fails as a film.
01/23/09
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